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This article introduces an exciting application of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Geometric Data Science to transform complex social and economic data into differentiable manifolds, creating a 'terrain' for strategic decision-making. The approach offers the potential to apply physics-based analysis methods, like differential geometry, to business and national strategies, which is a truly innovative perspective.
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View Original"Using VAEs, we construct a manifold of strategic space from social, political, economic, and marketing data, obtaining a smooth latent space from noisy data and performing differential geometry and control engineering simulations on that space."